Just asking, what do you Linux users here think was (if there was any) the darkest day in Linux history?
There was a scandal with Red Hat, but I donโt remember what it was.
Does watercooling a GPU reduce the chance of a PSU pin meltdown?
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Iโd guess so since water cools better than air as long as it gets where itโs ought to cool.
If thereโs any effect it will be extremely slight. As the amps that are pulled through the power cables just depend on how much wattage the GPU wants to pull. I think thereโs a slight benefit to electricity conductivity at lower temperature but the effect should be minimal and totally counteracted by the GPUs power limit just pushing it to what it is configured.
Water-cooled cables exist, but those are never used in computers. Basically electric car chargers have water-cooled cables for extremely high power charging, but Iโve not heard the same technology be used in any other kind of cable someone might see.
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By the way, @blackjacksike are you considering watercooling again now?
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In Linux, is the root directory shared across all internal drives or is there one master drive that has the root directory and all other drives are in a subdirectory?
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Thereโs just one filesystem root. It wouldnโt make sense for there to be multiple roots of the filesystem as there would be no way to easily refer to the other ones. What could be above the folder /?
Itโs Windows thatโs weird for not having a single root of the file structure but instead forcing things to be split up into drive letters.
Usually yes, but the root filesystem might even be an in-memory temporary file system with real disks mounted inside it (so the root isnโt necessarily even a disk).
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honestly drive letters makes total sense from a non-unix-like perspective, the idiocy is forcing a max of 26 drives, and they actually fixed that, guess howโฆ
allowing an arbitrary mount point anywhere in the filesystem.. so uh. now your drive letter doesnโt mean belgium
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Whoโd need more than 26 drives even?
Servers, most likely. Thatโs probably why most servers run Linux.
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I see. DW said the limit should be gone nowโฆ
I mean.. me? if i ever have a spare bunch of money iโd have quite a few drives.
secondlyโฆ
and yeah serversโฆ duh (that actually includes secondly)
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What is the optimal amount of drives for an average user?
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2 + usb sticks iโd assume
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And the two should be if similar sizes?
not similar sizes. you want one big and cheap, and one small and fast. whatever fits your price range. for me thats a 500 gb ssd and a 2 TB hdd, and iโve just added on other hdds and an ssd when i got the opportunity.
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In total how much data storage do you have with these additional ones too?
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4.3 TB, though i think thatโs a bit small, I suspect iโve been using my ssds too much and as such theyโve been trimming
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I assume youโd wish to have 5 TB instead of 4.3?
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i meant compared to adding up the advertised sizes on all the drives. I think adding them up would yield 4.75 TB but i donโt recall with certainty
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